Youth Writer’s Workshop

with Kagiso Lesogo Molope

In Person Fiction
Date
Admission
Free
Date
Saturday
Oct , 2018
6
2:00pm
Eastern
Ottawa Public Library Sunnyside Branch
1049 Bank St. • Ottawa
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Youth Writer’s Workshop
Kagiso Lesego Molope · Photo by Rémi Thériault

Molope's prose is exhilarating and she shines in the development of a character that you not only root for, but are desperate to defend.

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Calling aspiring writers between the ages of 10 and 15: Register for our free Writing Workshops with acclaimed author Kagiso Lesogo Molope. The Multi-week workshops will take place on Saturdays from 2-4PM on October 6, October 20, November 3 and November 10.
 
Space is limited. Only 12 young writers will be accepted. Please forward a sample of your writing to Neil Wilson.
 
A chapbook containing work by the young authors will be produced and a public showcase will take place on November 20th, the anniversary of the UN Convention on the rights of the child.

The Authors

Kagiso Lesego Molope

Kagiso Lesego Molope

Kagiso Lesego Molope is an Indigenous novelist and playwright of the San people of Southern Africa. She is the author of four other novels: Dancing in the Dust, which was on the IBBY Honour List for 2006; The Mending Season; Such a Lonely, Lovely Road; and This Book Betrays My Brother. She has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award four times. She is the winner of the 2014 Percy FitzPatrick Award, the 2019 Ottawa Book Award for Fiction, and the 2019 inaugural Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award. Across Southern Africa and in parts of Europe, her works are read in schools in several languages. She wrote the play Maya Angelou: Black Woman Rising, which was staged for five years at Oslo’s Nordic Black Theatre. She lives on the unceded and unsurrendered Anishinaabe Algonquin territory.

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